Dániel Gazsó: Processes of Diasporization: The Past and Present of the Hungarian Diaspora
Publikálva: HUNGARIAN JOURNAL OF MINORITY STUDIES VOL. VII, 2024
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Processes of Diasporization: The Past and Present of the Hungarian Diaspora
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the processes of becoming a diaspora through a specific case, namely through the formation and institutionalization of Hungarian communities dispersed around the world. Accordingly, I seek answers to the following questions: From what time period can we talk about diasporic Hungarian communities? What migration processes contributed to their formation and subsequent growth? What kind of reception did the successive Hungarian emigration waves receive in the host-states? What change did they bring to the
organizational life of the Hungarian diaspora communities already living there? How did their relationship with Hungary develop? It is important to emphasize that the Hungarian diaspora does not have a single, generalizable, universal history. Each of the Hungarian communities scattered around the world has developed under different circumstances, shaping its institutional framework according to local needs. Without claiming to be exhaustive, the existing data, historical documents, scientific dissertations, and personal experiences on the operation of several organizations of the target groups make it possible to outline those events and social processes that contributed significantly to the development of the current forms of these geographically dispersed communities and their institutional systems. To reach this goal I will examine the Hungarian diaspora’s historical evolution in four phases, according to the nature of the emigration processes in different time periods and the impact on the already existing diaspora communities. The first phase marks the period before the First World War, the second relates to the twenty years between the two world wars, the third to the years after the Second World War and the time of Hungarian state socialism, and the fourth relates to the period from the end of the bipolar world system to the present.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62152/hjms.2024.gd
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GAZSÓ Dániel
Cultural anthropologist, research fellow at the Research Institute for Hungarian Communities Abroad; lecturer at the Ludovika University of Public Service
